Jacob Friedrich Werner

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Jacob Friedrich Werner (born September 15, 1732 in Königsberg (Prussia) ; † April 21, 1782 there ) was a German rhetorician and historian .

Life

The son of the court secretary and councilor Heinrich Werner († January 18, 1737) and his wife Gertrud Dorothea (* December 3, 1706; † August 1, 1793), daughter of the Königsberg professor Christian Sahme , had already lost his father in their early childhood. Since his mother then remarried to the Königsberg professor of rhetoric and history Christian Heinrich Gütther (1696–1755), he is likely to have grown up in an extremely stimulating home.

It was deposited at the University of Königsberg at the age of twelve on August 24, 1744 . Here he had also started his studies and on May 15, 1753 acquired the academic degree of Master of Philosophy. In 1754 he became an associate professor at the philosophical faculty of the Königsberg University and in 1755 a full professor of rhetoric and history. In 1755 he was also the caretaker of the Wallenrodische Bibliothek for one year and director of the former free society in Königsberg for seven years. In addition, he participated in the organizational tasks of the Königsberg University and was rector of the Alma Mater in the summer semester of 1778 .

In 1756 he married Luise Henriette (* January 27, 1730; † February 24, 1804), daughter of Commerce Councilor David Heinrich Pietsch. She was a niece of the Königsberg professor of poetry Johann Valentin Pietsch . The marriage had three children. We know Jakob Heinrich Werner (* 1758; † young), Friedericke Dorothea Luise Werner (* 1761; † young) and the poet Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias Werner .

Works

  • Talk about the competition of love and gratitude. Koenigsberg 1746
  • Speech in praise of emulation. Königsberg 1748. (Also in the collection of the writings of the Freyen Society.)
  • Commemorative speech at the celebration of the Peace of Westphalia, from the growth of the Prussian-Brandenburg house promoted by this peace treaty. Königsberg 1748 (also in the same collection)
  • Congratulations to Epistola. ad job. Car. Holder etc. Königsberg 1752
  • Diss. Prior de prudentiae politicae a L. Junio ​​Bruto, antequam obtinuit consulatum, editis speciminibus. Koenigsberg 1753
  • Diss. Poster. Frankfurt (Oder) 1753
  • Diss. Argumenta contra metempsychosin exponens. Koenigsberg 1754
  • Diss. De historia pragmatica. Koenigsberg 1755
  • Funeral speech at the coffin of the Verwittw. Profeflorin Hedio. Koenigsberg
  • Academic speech on the Russ name day. Empress Elisabeth. Koenigsberg 1758
  • News from the counts and nobles von Wallenrodischen family. Königsberg 1763 (Also in the weekly Königsberg. Advertisements from 1763.)
  • Oratio praemisso Panegyrico, quo primum a Gilv. Gazali munisicentia Cancell. et Direct. Acad. D. Kowalewski erga studiosam iuventutem laudabatur et actus huius oratorii conclusio. Koenigsberg 1772
  • Five programs in which he has explained the ancient coins in the coin cabinet belonging to the Wallenrodische Bibliothek since 1770.
  • Nine Latin memorabilia, kept in the name of the university in memory of the Chancellor von Tettau, various professors and other scholars.
  • Persistent diligence, as a main quality of an academic teacher, modeled on D. Kowalewslki, Chancellor and Director of the University. Koenigsberg
  • Biography of the court preacher, D. Arnoldt. Koenigsberg
  • Biography of the widowed Arnoldt, geb. Kröhoff. Koenigsberg
  • Genealogical news from Louise Charlotte, Countess of Ysenburg, b. Countess of Lehndorf. Koenigsberg

literature

  • Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig, 1815, Volume 15, pp. 24–26 ( online )
  • Johannes Gallandi : Königsberg city families. In: Rudolf Reinicke, Ernst Wichert: Old Prussian monthly. New episode. Ferdinand Beyer, Königsberg in Pr. 1883, p. 633 u.ö.
  • Hanspeter Marti, Manfred Komorowski: The University of Königsberg in the early modern period. Verlag Böhlau, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2008, ISBN 9783412201715 , p. 339 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Werner, Jacob Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werner, Jakob Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rhetorician and historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1732
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1782
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)